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NewsForge: Five Addictive Open Source Games

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Dmitri Popov
Aug 2, 2005

“You can use open source software to make yourself more
productive, but the open source community has also produced some
impressive game titles, such as Freeciv, Vega Strike, and Flight
Simulator. I’ve found some lesser-known yet excellent and quite
addictive games for you to try. All of these games have low system
requirements and run on multiple platforms, including Linux,
Windows, and Mac OS X.

“BOXit is a simple Java-based puzzle game, where you have to
remove tiles with the same color or value by dragging tiles one
over another. The trick is that you can only remove tiles that are
on the same row or column…”


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Dmitri Popov

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